Party officials are the backbone of the Party's cause and public servants of the people, and shall be loyal to the Party, clean, and responsible. The Party shall select officials on the basis of both their moral integrity and their professional competence – giving greater priority to the former – and on the basis of their merits and not their origins; it shall select officials who put the Party's cause first and who are impartial and upright; it shall oppose favoritism; and it shall endeavor to develop a contingent of officials that are revolutionary, younger, better educated, and more professional.
黨的干部是黨的事業(yè)的骨干，是人民的公仆，要做到忠誠干凈擔當。黨按照德才兼?zhèn)?、以德為先的原則選拔干部，堅持五湖四海、任人唯賢，堅持事業(yè)為上、公道正派，反對任人唯親，努力實現干部隊伍的革命化、年輕化、知識化、專業(yè)化。